The organizers of this year's meeting of the American
Anthropological Association knew that the presidential election
would provide plenty of fodder for scholarly discussions,
regardless of whether Mitt Romney or Barack Obama won.

And many of those discussions are about race: Of the 717
sessions scheduled here through this Sunday, 118 will deal with
that issue.

In the hallways and lobbies here at the downtown Hilton Hotel,
most among this notably liberal group of scholars